Still, the Pineapple Garden Maze is one of the most impressive permanent plant mazes in the world and is home to over 14,000 plants (plus, the hedges are over 7 feet tall!). It also makes for an ...

Frustrated by prolonged dry spells that have left their crops dry, some farmers in the country have started uprooting their ...

The authors collected a total of 2,430 inbred lines derived from elite commercial hybrids and 503 inbred lines from natural ...

A southern Indiana farmer who created a corn maze with trails outlining the face of “Star Wars” character Princess Leia says he planted it to honor the late actress Carrie Fisher. Jeremy ...

THE optimum plant density for a crop often decreases as the climate becomes drier. The usual explanation for this, that wider spacing of plants decreases competition for water 1,2, overlooks the ...

The construction of plasmids used for transformation of maize with the chicken avidin gene, transformation, tissue culture, and generation of avidin-expressing transgenic plants are described 22.

Improving plant yields is one way to cut the shortfall, and there have been great advances. But while maize yields, for example, have tripled over the past hundred years, so has water usage.